Pets Unit Worksheets for Elementary ELL

This resource is part of the pets unit for Elementary English Languge learners-Starters. ENL teacher can find the material useful.    LINK: https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Pets-Unit-for-Elementary-ELL-Starters-10780015

 Here are the Printable pets unit worksheets for elementary ESL/ELL learners  to practice pet vocabulary, reading, writing, and speaking through fun ESL activities. The worksheets were designed with lovely visuals and fun tasks. They will capture your student’s attention and enjoy working on them.

Here is a video with all the worksheets in the resource.

This word search helps beginners review pet vocabulary while building spelling skills.

This worksheet helps students practice beginning sounds and pet vocabulary by writing and coloring words that match each letter.

These worksheets help beginners review color words and pet vocabulary through simple drawing and coloring.

Students draw and label their favorite pet, identifying body parts such as ears, tail, legs, and whiskers. They then write a short descriptive sentence using colors and simple adjectives. This activity supports vocabulary development and sentence writing.

Students draw the pet they have at home and add their picture to a class graph. Together, the class compares how many students have dogs, cats, other pets, or no pets. This activity builds early graphing skills.

Students create a pet shop by folding, labeling, and gluing the animals onto a shoebox, then adding a store sign. All this, after completing the pet word on the worksheet.

Learning to use adjectives to describe pets will contribute to the student’s vocabulary expansion. Students cut and paste the pet pictures to sort them by key features: long or short ears, long or short tails, and animals with two or four legs.

Students follow step-by-step directions to create a pet shop scene. They listen and color the pets as the teacher describes them, cut out the animals, and glue them behind the shop window using construction paper. Students finish by writing a short description of their pet shop, combining listening, fine motor skills, and simple sentence writing.

Students listen and color the parts of the pets’ bodies as directed, then answer simple questions about the colors they used. This activity reinforces body-part vocabulary.

Students practice numbers 1 to 20 by coloring the birds according to number-color clues and then writing the answers in complete sentences. This two-step activity reinforces number recognition, color words.

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These worksheets help beginners practice numbers 1–20 by matching, ordering, and writing missing numbers on their notebooks.

Students read simple sentences and color the pictures to match the descriptions.

Students cut and paste the animals into the correct places where they live, such as a cage, tank, or bed. This hands-on activity helps learners practice pet vocabulary, early categorization skills, and following simple directions while strengthening fine motor skills.

Students read simple sentences and place or draw the animals in the correct rooms of the house. This activity helps learners practice basic prepositions of place, house vocabulary, and sentence comprehension through a hands-on, visual task that is easy for teachers to model and assess.

This first worksheet helps beginners practice prepositions of place and house room vocabulary through clear pictures and simple sentence frames. The second Worksheet where students answer basic comprehension questions about pets.

Students read and color the pictures, then rewrite the sentences and create their own questions using Who…? This activity helps learners practice early question formation.

After matching the pets to the correct children, students write the missing words to complete each sentence. This activity reinforces the sentence pattern “He/She has a.

This worksheet helps beginner learners describe pets using simple sentences and colors. Students read, write, and draw, reinforcing vocabulary, sentence structure, and comprehension in a fun, hands-on way.

Be fancy and provide each student with a clipboard, pencil, and the questionnaire worksheet. After the writing all the answers, gather the students in different groups to share their findings and discuss the results.

Students read short, meaningful sentences and show understanding by drawing, coloring, and completing the pictures, which lowers anxiety and builds confidence.

This worksheet helps beginners practice spelling by completing simple animal words and matching them to pictures.

These worksheets help beginners practice pet vocabulary and simple grammar through clear visuals, repetition, and hands-on writing, making language learning easy, engaging, and confidence-building.

Perfect for early learners, these worksheets combine writing, vocabulary, and visual support to develop confidence in describing pets.

Practice the Numbers 1 to 20 within the Pets Unit. Go to the blog post:   https://eflelementaryresources.blogspot.com/2024/08/pets-unit-numbers-1-to-20-for.html

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Pets Unit Small cards for Elementary ELL

These pet small cards are part of the pets unit for Elementary English Languge learners-Starters pack.  Newcomer Teacher can find the material great for planning, ready to download at the store.     LINK: https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Pets-Unit-for-Elementary-ELL-Starters-10780015

 These **Pets Unit Small Cards** give teachers compact, ready-to-use visuals that make it easy for students to practise pet vocabulary actively — in games, matching, speaking drills, and stations. This is ideal for beginner ESL/ELL learners who need multiple exposures and repetition to master English vocabulary confidently.

Use these to introduce and develop animal vocabulary.

Introduce the verb to have in interrogative, affirmative and negative answers.

Hand in all the printable pets unit vocabulary small cards to the students and ask questions: What do you have?
Student: I have a dog.

Teacher: Do you have a cat?

Student: Yes, I do.

Do you have a fish?
Student: No, I don’t.

Speaking fluency. Students can describe the pet on the small cards.
Look, I have a mouse!

 Listening comprehension. Have your students develop their self-expression through movement using their body and/or mime as you show the small cards. Check how the students will reproduce animal movements maybe even using the sounds the pets make.
Teacher: Move like a fish!

Picture-to-word matching skills. Display the pet unit small cards and the word strips all mixed up on the board, a volunteer matches the picture to the written word.

Show all the flashcards, both pictures and word cards. Give nine children the words and bring them to the front of the class. Then, hand out the pictures around the class. The children with the pictures do not let the children with the words see their flashcard. The children with the words then have to find which children have the picture that corresponds to it by asking: Do you have a mouse?

Students can do sorting of the small cards on their own. Use the cards to review vocabulary related to the parts of the body of the pets.

Hand in several white boards with the sorting phrases written on each. It can be the size of the ears: big ears and small ears.

Use for Simple sentence building: The rabbit has big ears, but the cat has small ears.

 Sort the pets with 2 legs and 4 legs!

Sort the size of the tails: big or small/long or short.

Create your own grid for the tic tac toe game. Draw a grid on a piece of cardboard of 9 spaces arranged in 3x3.

When to Use These Small Cards

• Vocabulary introduction or review  

• Pair and small group activities  

• ESL centers / stations  

• Warm-ups / quick recall drills  

• Early finisher tasks

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Pets Unit Flashcards for Elementary ELL

This  Pets Unit Flashcards — ESL Vocabulary Cards for Elementary Learners is included in the full pack to teach the pets unit.    LINK for the resource ready to download: https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Pets-Unit-for-Elementary-ELL-Starters-10780015

Pets Unit Flashcards

Teaching pets vocabulary to young English learners can be tricky when students only see words on a list. These **pets flashcards** give teachers visuals and ready-to-use cards that help students instantly connect animal pictures with English names, making vocabulary stick faster. This resource is perfect for beginner ESL/ELL learners and works well in games, matching activities, and speaking drills.

Use the flashcards to introduce the pets vocabulary and have the students understand the names of the common animals.

Use the pets unit flashcards to ask yes/ no questions: Is this a dog?

Students: Yes, it is!

Is this a frog?

Students: No, it isn’t.

Use the flashcards to ask about colors: What color is this cat?

Students: It’s orange! (make a color splotch next to the cat)

Have students make sentences: This cat is white.

Let’s count the pets on the board: one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight. Eight pets!!
Ask more questions: What’s number three?
Students: it’s a rabbit!

Make a grid on the board. Perfect for Listening comprehension. Say a number and letter combination for a student and have that person say what it is.

Teacher: 2C
Student: snake!

Use adjectives to help students describe the pets. Here is an example with a cat labeling to the parts of the body. Use for Speaking and sentence practice: The cat has small ears. 

Students will talk about possession: Who has a rabbit?
Students: Ann!
Model sentences to express possession: Bob has a fish.

Students will contrast and compare the physical appearance of the pets. Review the parts of body words if you have already taught that unit. You can choose the ears. Model sentences: The brown rabbit has long ears.

By using adjectives, students will express themselves wih more detail.

Contrast the length of the tail. Ask questions: Which pets have short tails?
Students: rabbit, dog, fish, hamster.

Use the flashcards to introduce or review even more body parts: wings, legs, head, body, eyes, whiskers, nose, mouth.
Ask questions: Which animal has wings?
Students: birds!

Introduce how to indicate position using the prepositions of place: in, on.

Place the fish and the fish bowl flashcards on the board. Write the word IN. mimic that the fish goes into the fish bowl, draw the arrow and say the sentence: The fish is IN the fish bowl.

Have the students say a sentence with the dog: The dog is in the dog house.

Do the same with the location word on. Ask questions: Where is the dog?
Students: It’s on the dog bed.

Students will express preference using the adjective favorite.Place the flashcards on the board and ask: What’s your favorite pet? Graph!

Students can use their worksheet to graph the results from the class and write it down.

Play a guessing game with your students. Hold a pet flashcard without showing it to your students. Describe it: This pet doesn’t have wings. It doesn’t have whiskers.  It has four legs. It has a tail.

Students will start guessing. The one that guesses correctly: dog! Will win the card. Continue with more cards.

When to Use These Flashcards

* Beginning of unit vocabulary introduction  

* Centers / small group practice  

* Partner speaking activities  

* Review sessions and warm-ups  

* Homework reinforcement

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